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The Ridawi Ziyarah Manual

The Merit and Manner of Visiting Imam al-Rida (a)

Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi

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Title: The Ridawi Ziyarah Manual

(The Merit and Manner of Visiting Imam al-Rida (a)

Author: Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi.

Publisher: Electronic copy

Edition: 1446 AH

Size: Medium – 114 pages.

The book's introduction:

Ziyarah is a bond of connection between the visitor and the one visited. We visit the graves and shrines of the Ahl al-Bayt because they are the divine succor and the lordly cause that we have been commanded to take as a means of recourse to Allah, the Exalted, and as a means of attaining the goals of this world and the stations of the Hereafter. By virtue of the merciful authority over creation that Allah Almighty has given them, and since they are living and provided for near Him, they pour forth gifts and blessings upon their visitors and care for them in the affairs of their world and their Hereafter.

Ziyarah is a doctrinal principle by which the covenant between the visitor and the pure Imams is renewed, as they are the firmest handle to which we have been commanded to hold fast, so that we may take hold of their waistband and be in their shade on the Day of Resurrection. It has been narrated that Imam al-Rida (a) said: “Every Imam has a covenant upon the necks of his friends and his Shiʿa, and part of the complete fulfillment of the covenant and its good discharge is visiting their graves. So whoever visits them out of desire to visit them and in affirmation of what they desired, their Imams will be their intercessors on the Day of Resurrection”([1]).

It is my pleasure to present to the visitors of Imam ʿAli ibn Musa al-Rida (a) this simplified Ridawi ziyarah manual, to help them perform his ziyarah according to what has been transmitted from the Ahl al-Bayt (a) and what has been derived from their blessed words.

I ask Allah, the Exalted, to grant the visitors of Imam ʿAli ibn Musa al-Rida (a) success and acceptance, hoping that they will include me, at his blessed shrine, in their supplication and ziyarah.

Mahmoud Al-Mosawi

Bahrain, Bani Jamra

Written: in holy Mashhad

Friday, 2 Dhu al-Hijja 1446 AH

([1]) al-Kafi, vol. 4, p. 567.

Contents of the book

Table of contents

8 chapters · 54 headings
  1. 1Forewordp. 6
  2. 2Imam ʿAli ibn Musa al-Rida (a)p. 8
  3. 3The Merit of Visiting Imam al-Rida (a)p. 10
  4. 1 │ The Merit of Maintaining His Noble Shrinep. 10
  5. 2 │ The Merit of His Soil and the Land of Tusp. 11
  6. 3 │ Visiting Him Is Like Visiting the Messenger of Allahp. 12
  7. 4 │ A Garden from the Gardens of Paradise and a Place Frequented by the Angelsp. 13
  8. 5 │ He Is Given the Reward of One Who Spent and Foughtp. 13
  9. 6 │ Visiting Him Equals a Thousand Thousand Hajjsp. 14
  10. 7 │ The Body of al-Rida's Visitor Is Forbidden to the Fire, and Paradise Is Hisp. 15
  11. 8 │ Through Visiting Him Distresses Are Relieved and Sins Are Forgivenp. 16
  12. 9 │ The Visitor of Imam al-Rida Attains Intercessionp. 17
  13. 10 │ Intercession for Major Sins, and the Reward of Seventy Martyrs with the Prophetp. 19
  14. 11 │ A Pulpit Facing the Pulpit of the Prophet on the Day of Resurrectionp. 20
  15. 12 │ The Reward of the Martyrs, the Truthful, the Pilgrims and the Mujahidinp. 21
  16. 13 │ The Visitor, and Rain, Cold and Heatp. 22
  17. 14 │ A Place Where Supplication Is Answeredp. 23
  18. 15 │ Imam al-Rida Visits His Visitors on the Day of Resurrectionp. 23
  19. 16 │ Al-Rida's Visitor Is with Him in His Rankp. 24
  20. 17 │ His Visitors Are the Closest to the Prophets and the Awliyaʾ at the Thronep. 24
  21. 18 │ Better than the Recommended Hajjp. 25
  22. 19 │ Between Visiting al-Rida and al-Husaynp. 26
  23. 4The Great Merit in Visiting Imam al-Ridap. 27
  24. 5The Times for Visiting Imam al-Ridap. 30
  25. 1 │ Visiting Him in the Month of Rajabp. 30
  26. 2 │ On Noble Days in Generalp. 30
  27. 3 │ Fridayp. 31
  28. 4 │ In the Middle of Rajabp. 32
  29. 5 │ The Twenty-Third of Dhu al-Qaʿdap. 33
  30. 6 │ The Day of Dahw al-Ard (the Spreading of the Earth)p. 34
  31. 7 │ The Days Specific to the Imamp. 34
  32. 8 │ Wednesday of Every Weekp. 35
  33. 9 │ Visiting Him in Time of Needp. 36
  34. 6The Devotional Acts of the Purified Ridawi Shrinep. 38
  35. 1 │ Worship, Glorification and Supplication in Generalp. 38
  36. 2 │ Spending the Night near Imam al-Ridap. 39
  37. 3 │ Praying Two Rakʿasp. 40
  38. 4 │ The Prayer of Need at the Noble Headp. 40
  39. 5 │ The Prayer of Jaʿfar al-Tayyarp. 41
  40. 6 │ Reciting the Ziyarah and the Rest of Its Mannerp. 41
  41. 7The Manner of Visiting Imam al-Ridap. 42
  42. 1 │ The Ghusl (Ritual Bath)p. 43
  43. 2 │ Seeking Permission to Enter the Purified Shrinep. 44
  44. 3 │ Reciting the Text of the Ziyarahp. 47
  45. The First Ziyarahp. 48
  46. The Second Ziyarahp. 49
  47. The Third Ziyarahp. 50
  48. The Fourth, Abridged Ziyarahp. 63
  49. On the Farewellp. 65
  50. Ziyarat Amin Allahp. 69
  51. The Short Comprehensive Ziyarah (al-Jamiʿa al-Saghira)p. 75
  52. The Ziyarah of Wednesdayp. 77
  53. The Supplication after Visiting Himp. 79
  54. 8Forty Hadiths of Imam ʿAli ibn Musa al-Ridap. 86

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